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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="9-515" title_number="9" title_name="Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="County Water and Sewerage Plans">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section applies only in Montgomery County and Prince George’s County.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The county council of each county shall at least once every 3 years:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Prepare a county plan;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Prepare, review, and revise, as the county council considers necessary, a separate statement of objectives and policies to be achieved and implemented by the county plan in the county; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Consider the following in the statements of objectives and policies of the county plans:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Planning;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Zoning;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Population estimates;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Engineering;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Economics; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>State, regional, municipal, local, and area plans.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>To achieve the objectives and policies set by the county council, the county executive of each county shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Prepare a preliminary draft of the county plan;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>From time to time review and, as the county executive or county council considers necessary, prepare amendments to the county plan including revisions to service area category designations; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Submit to the county council for the county council’s consideration, revision, modification, comment, and approval:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The draft; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Any revision or amendment to the draft.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The county executive of each county shall prepare and submit to the county council:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A final draft of the county plan to conform to the action of the county council in approving the draft; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A final revision or amendment to the county plan that takes into consideration any significant change in the intervening planning or development in the county.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>At least 30 days before the date set for a public hearing under subsection (f) of this section, the county council of each county shall submit its final draft or the final draft of any revision or amendment of the county plan for recommendation to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The county council of each county shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Hold a public hearing on:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Its final draft of the county plan; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The final draft of any revision or amendment to the county plan; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Publish a notice of the time and place of the public hearing at least 10 days before the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the county.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>After the public hearing in each county, the county council shall review, may amend as the county council considers necessary, and shall adopt the county plan or the revision or amendment to the county plan.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The adoption of the county plan or a revision or amendment of the county plan by the county council of the county is not final until 10 days after the action adopting it.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>During the 10-day period provided by paragraph (2) of this subsection, the county executive may:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Review the county plan or any revision or amendment to the county plan; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Recommend for the consideration of the county council whatever change to the county plan or any revision or amendment to the county plan that the county executive considers necessary or desirable.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>After the time periods required for adoption under this section, the county council of each county shall submit to the Department, as required by § 9-506(b) and (c) of this subtitle:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The county plan; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any revision or amendment to the county plan.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
